Okay.

What happens when one of those partisan “fact filled” email “forwards” gets forwarded to someone who actually knows a thing or two about a thing or two?

…Hilarity! That’s what.

Here’s the beef. My brother forwarded me this about Social Security. This email essentially blames the Democrats for everything that is wrong, or could possibly go wrong with everyone’s favorite social program: Social Security.

Now, as the center-right leaning skeptic that I am, I was torn between kindof secretly wanting it to be true, and not having the time, nor the vim, to research this thing myself. Knowing that these kinds of emails are usually at least 110% out-of-their-tree wrong. So what did I do? I forwarded it to my Mom, naturally.

And here’s where the fun starts.

My Mom, like most moms with email accounts, just LOVE to forward shit. And oh, forward this shit she did. Eventually landing in the hands of someone who actually WORKS for the Social Security Administration.

And Holy Shit, looks what happens:

(I’ve split this up into a couple of posts to make it more digestible)